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LINQ Pocket Reference
Ready to take advantage of LINQ with C# 3.0? This guide has
the detail you need to grasp Microsoft's new querying
technology, and concise explanations to help you learn it
quickly. And once you begin to apply LINQ, the book serves
as an on-the-job reference when you need immediate
reminders.
All the examples in the
LINQ Pocket Reference are preloaded
into LINQPad, the highly praised utility that lets you work
with LINQ interactively. Created by the authors and free to
download, LINQPad will not only help you learn LINQ, it will
have you thinking in LINQ.
This reference explains:
LINQ's key concepts, such as deferred execution, iterator
chaining, and type inference in lambda expressions
The differences between local and interpreted queries
C# 3.0's query syntax in detail-including multiple
generators, joining, grouping, query continuations, and more
Query syntax versus lambda syntax, and mixed syntax queries
Composition and projection strategies for complex queries
All of LINQ's 40-plus query operators
How to write efficient LINQ to SQL queries
How to build expression trees from scratch
All of LINQ to XML's types and their advanced use
LINQ promises to be the locus of a thriving ecosystem for
many years to come. This small book gives you a huge head
start.
"The authors built a tool (LINQPad) that lets you experiment
with LINQ interactively in a way that the designers of LINQ
themselves don't support, and the tool has all kinds of
wonderful features that LINQ, SQL and Regular Expression
programmers alike will want to use regularly long after
they've read the book."
-Chris Sells, Connected Systems Program Manager, Microsoft
CONTENTS:
Getting Started
Lambda Queries
Comprehension Queries
Deferred Execution
Subqueries
Composition Strategies
Projection Strategies
Interpreted Queries
LINQ to SQL
Building Query Expressions
Query Operator Overview
Filtering
Projecting
Joining
Ordering
Grouping
Set Operators
Conversion Methods
Element Operators
Aggregation Methods
Quantifiers
Generation Methods
LINQ to XML
X-DOM Overview
Instantiating an X-DOM
Navigating/Querying an X-DOM
Updating an X-DOM
Working with Values
Documents and Declarations
Names and Namespaces
Projecting into an X-DOM
Index
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